16.5. Installing online manuals

You can either install the documentation information onto the hard disk or mount the documentation CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive. Mounting the CD-ROM will save some amount of hard disk space, but it requires the CD-ROM to be kept in the CD-ROM drive at all times. Also, searching the documentation from the CD-ROM drive can be significantly slower (in some cases up to 10 times slower) than searching the information if it is installed on a hard disk. In addition, there are two documentation CD-ROMs:

  • The AIX Base Documentation CD-ROM

  • The AIX Extended Documentation CD-ROM

Use smit install_latest to install the online manuals onto the hard disk. The fileset bos.docregister is a prerequisite for all online manuals. It will ...

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